Phish will be back in their happy place in December when they set up shop at New York’s Madison Square Garden From Dec. 28-31. The jam band legends announced the gigs on Tuesday (Oct. 1) in an Instagram post where they noted that the visit will bring their total number of MSG plays to date to 87.

The ticket request period for the four gigs is open now here and will run through Oct. 7 at noon ET. A general onsale will kick off on Oct. 11 at noon ET.

The band is gearing up for their end of year gigs with a three-show run at New York’s MVP Arena from Oct. 25-27, with proceeds going to singer Trey Anastasio’s rehabilitation facility Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program. The facility is a personal project for the singer/guitarist, who is 17 years sober. In late 2023 he opened the facility in his native Vermont with the caseworker who helped him after a 2006 arrest for heroin possession and DWI.

“Some people need longer than others. There’s a staff that assesses the condition that your loved one is in, and some people would come 20, 30 days, other people might need 90,” Anastasio said of Divided Sky. “It’s based on your individual situation. Some people might need longer and that’s perfectly fine.”

Earlier this year, Phish became the second resident band at Las Vegas’ immersive Sphere venue, putting on an eye-popping spectacle across four shows as the follow-up to the building’s first resident band, U2.

Check out the poster for Phish’ MSG NYE run below.

Lana Del Rey is going country with her upcoming album Lasso, and she’s bringing her trusty collaborator Jack Antonoff along for the ride.

In a new interview with Time, confirmed he’s saddling up for Lana’s latest project. “We have… yeah,” he said. “[It’s] a story for another time,” he said, staying tight-lipped on further details about the LP. “The reason why I don’t talk about things until they’re out is very succinct: I like to let the music be the first entry point for people.”

“I don’t want to rob anyone of their experience of hearing it without context,” he added. “The second you start talking about work that is coming, you’re planting these seeds in people’s head.”

Antonoff and Del Rey have been hitting the studio trail together since 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell, followed by Chemtrails Over the Country Club in 2021, and last year’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — all of which lassoed top spots on the Billboard 200, while Tunnel reached No. 3. Now, it seems they’re roping in country influences for Del Rey’s newest project, which she first teased back in January during Grammys week.

“If you can’t already tell, the music business is going country,” Lana announced at the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards. “We’re going country. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi over the last four years.”

When Jelly Roll performed on the season 50 premiere of Saturday Night Live, his two songs were far from the only musical moment on the show. Bowen Yang brought two of the leading ladies of pop music to the episode by playing Charli XCX hosting a political talk show (alongside DJ/sidekick Troye Sivan) and channeling Chappell Roan when he played viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng on Weekend Update.

And that was just the first episode of this landmark season. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about the season premiere; who’s up next as hosts and musical guests (Stevie Nicks! Ariana Grande! Chappell Roan!); and who we’d like to see pop up later on, from returning season 1 performers to legends who have somehow never graced the SNL stage.

Listen to the new episode below:

Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Future makes chart history — yet again — atop the Billboard 200 with his latest album Mixtape Pluto, how Katy Perry notches her sixth top 10 album with the arrival of 143, and how Chappell Roan tops the Top Album Sales chart and the Artist 100 for the first time, thanks to promotion surrounding the first anniversary of her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard’s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard’s executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s managing director, charts and data operations, Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)

Kate McKinnon got to live the 90s dream!

The Saturday Night Live comedian came face-to-face with Hanson on Today Monday morning (Sept. 30), where she’s seen nervously greeting the sibling trio. When asked what it is about the “MMMBop” group she loves so much, she noted that she loves their “musicianship,” first and foremost.

McKinnon explained that her favorite song is “Go” from Hanson’s 2007 album The Walk. “It’s so beautiful, thematically and musically. The harmony’s so tight,” she explained.

The Barbie star then jokingly noted how much she loves Hanson’s “style,” adding of her short blonde hair, “Growing up on Long Island, this is why I have my haircut. I’ve just been copying you guys my whole life.”

When Zac Hanson told McKinnon that he loves the denim jumpsuit that she’s wearing, the comedian hilariously added, “Yes, I’ve just been copying you guys my whole life.”

Hanson is gearing up to embark on their Underneath: Experience Tour, which kicks off later this week on Oct. 3. The gig, which celebrates 20 years of their third studio album, Underneath, runs through Nov. 11. The band’s most recent album was 2022’s Red Green Blue.

Watch the moment Kate McKinnon met Hanson below.

Music streaming company LiveOne will continue to have a relationship with auto manufacturer Tesla but with less advantageous terms. Starting in December, Tesla will no longer subsidize LiveOne products for some of its customers. 

For years, LiveOne’s relationship with Tesla has been a cornerstone of its music streaming business; Tesla vehicles sold in the U.S. with Tesla’s Premium Connectivity package included a membership to LiveOne’s Slacker Radio that was paid by the car maker. The “streaming” button on the Tesla console led drivers to the subsidized, LiveOne-powered streaming platform without needing to connect to the app through their smartphones.

Over the years, LiveOne remained a key streaming partner as the automaker added other streaming apps to its console. Now, LiveOne is losing its preferred status. Starting Tuesday (Oct. 1), Tesla replaced the “streaming” button with a LiveOne-branded app. Come December, LiveOne will no longer be free, although Tesla will continue to pay grandfathered LiveOne accounts in perpetuity.

While Tesla will no longer subsidize the streaming radio subscriptions, LiveOne will offer Tesla owners discounted LiveOne packages. “The conversion opportunity has enormous upside by offering Tesla owners an opportunity to upgrade and have access on all devices at discounted priority pricing,” LiveOne CEO Robert Ellin said in a statement. “We’ll drive growth, unlock new revenue streams, own our data, and increase ARPU.”

In the near term, however, the amended partnership will hurt LiveOne’s financials. In Tuesday’s announcement, LiveOne reduced its guidance for consolidated fiscal 2025 revenue to $120 million to $135 million from $140 million to $155 million. At the midpoints, the change represents a 13.6% decline. Also, LiveOne lowered guidance for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to $8 million to $15 million from a range of $16 million to $20 million — a 36% decline at the midpoints. 

The news sent LiveOne shares down as much as 32.6% to $0.64 before closing at $0.73, marking a 23.1% decline from the prior day’s closing price. Combined with LiveOne’s 23.2% drop in share price last week and Monday’s 10.5% decline, the stock has lost 47% in just the last seven trading days. 

Tesla’s paid members increased 15 times since LiveOne acquired Slacker in 2017, according to a LiveOne investor presentation from March. LiveOne’s management is focused on establishing new business-to-business and has been in discussions with 50 potential partners, according to the document.